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Re: aic7xxx autoscanning

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Mon Nov 22 16:17:18 1999

To: VKliewer@mpi.mb.ca
Date:   Mon, 22 Nov 1999 20:49:00 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Werner_Kliewer@MPIC.mb.ca,
        linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <VA.000003d0.0f1645fc@verndesk.mpic.mb.ca> from "Werner Kliewer" at Nov 22, 99 12:59:07 pm
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Message-Id: <E11q0OT-00047L-00@the-village.bc.nu>
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

> > We support the Olympic chipset based IBM adapters (ie non lanstreamer)
> 
> At what kernel level did this (or will this) start? Or do I have to install 
> an updated version of the driver? Perhaps it would be worth it to order one 
> of these cards to avoid some of the stuff below...

olympic is new in 2.2.11.

> installed, the port is not discovered. As soon as the card is installed the 
> port is discovered, but with the wrong IRQ, which makes me wonder about the 
> uart and other parameters. I would love it if I could change the kernel's 
> assumption about the IRQ. Or better yet if the autodiscovery would find the 
> correct IRQ. The IRQ on the card is set with a jumper...

The kernel doesnt autoprobe ttyS0/ttyS1 irqs - you have to setserial them.

Alan


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